extortion

The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that shut down the Weather Channel’s program for an hour on Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal. The early morning live broadcast was interrupted ...

To the left we see part of a malicious email. The author brags about how the From address is the same as the To address. This is supposed to mean that the ...

Bogus bomb threats created a scare across the country. A quick note here that I'll dive into more deeply next week. The big question at this time -- with MANY of the ...

The following is an extract from our quarterly Latin America Report. To receive the report in full, click here. CRIME This reporting period was characterised by an increase in crime within tourist ...

(An update to this post has been made at the end)This weekend I received an email forwarded from a stranger. They had received a threatening email and had shared it with a ...

Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use it? You ...

Ransomware and extortion aren’t going away in 2018. A group of hackers has threatened financial services provider Liberty with the leak of “top client” data if they refuse to pay a ransom ...

More than 400 schools were targeted with a bomb hoax, seemingly to harass the apparent sender ...

There’s no end in sight for ransomware and, based on what we’ve seen this year, these threats will become even more aggressive. Worse still, hackers have started incorporating extortion into other types ...